Violeta Chamorro quotes

Violeta Chamorro quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“But sir- we are a beginning democracy. If there were not strikes, this would not be a democracy.”
-- Violeta Chamorro

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“Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory.”
-- Violeta Chamorro

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“Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.”
“You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”

Source : Tikkun magazine, July-August 1989.
“Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".”
“We have declared a bitter war against the principle of democracy and all those who seek to enact it.”
“We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.”
“Oh Allah, strike the apostate rulers, Oh Allah, kill them one after the other, sparing none.”
“I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.”
“Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.”
“When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.”
“Strike up the drum and march courageously.”

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